The Metropolitan Methodist Church (later Metropolitan United Church) on Bond Street in Toronto in 1896. Public Domain
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Commentary
Roman Catholic bishops supported Confederation in the hope that a strong central government would protect Catholic minorities in Protestant-dominated Ontario and the Maritimes, two-thirds of the new Dominion. On the flip side, Protestant minority educators in Quebec looked to the same constitutional provisions to protect them.
C.P. Champion, Ph.D., is the author of two books, was a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University in 2021, and edits The Dorchester Review magazine, which he founded in 2011.
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